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Article: Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa.(Review)
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- June 22, 2001
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Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa. By Lamin Sanneh. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 291. $29.95.)
This study discusses the attempts to abolish the transatlantic slave trade in West Africa. Sierra Leone, established by the British in 1787, and Liberia, commenced by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in 1822, are presented as attempts at abolition of the trade. The theme of the study is that Westernized Africans, such as Olaudah Equiano and Samuel Crowther, who had been victims of the slave trade, collaborated with British and American evangelists and humanitarians to support the colonization ...